Console that plays NES/Genesis cartridges now available – updated

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There were two gaming consoles that stand out above the rest in my youth as the most playable, fun bits of electronics that I’ve ever put my hand on. They are the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. Honestly, if you had one of those consoles, then the gaming would go all-night. It was the day of the 2D scrolling shooter, and the best button-smashing, hack-n-slash games that there ever were. The problem back then was that each household only had one or the other; you were either a Genesis family or an SNES family. Those days are, thankfully, over (unless you count the houses that have only a Wii, 360, or PS3 as carrying on the tradition).

{ad}A console has appeared out of nowhere, created by a company called DDRgame, that allows you to play both SNES and Genesis games. It can also play NES games. It’s a simple idea considering how small that hardware can be made these days. The simple device looks like a pretty good cross between a Genesis and a Super Nintendo, and so do the controllers. Basically, if you’ve got all the cartridges still sitting around, this would be a great buy at $40.

Of course, it would be a lot easier and cheaper and more illegal to just install ROMS on your Wii or 360 or PC or cell phone and apparently the system doesn’t quite support every mapper that the old systems could, but I can imagine quite a few people out there that would love to be able to just pop in a cartridge like the old days.

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Book of Zero

CORRECTION: This does NOT play SNES games. “SG-16 bit” means “Sega Genesis 16 bit” and “FC-8 bit” means FamiCom (or “Family Computer”, the name the NES held in Japan) 8 bit. This unit will not play SFC-16 bit games.

Sal Cangeloso

Updated. Thanks for the comment!

Brian

This is a repackaging of the Gen-X, which has been out for approximately a year already. In other words, this is nothing new, and certainly not the first.